Waffle House Storm Center activates for Florence

Waffle House has always been a popular spot for round-the-clock comfort food for locals and travelers alike throughout the South.

But on Twitter, Waffle House wrote that it was closely watching the storm for any developments.

"If we are open quickly after the storm, that means the community is coming back and folks are out, we are getting back to that sense of normalcy", Waffle House spokesman Pat Warner said to CNN.

If a Waffle House is closed because there's a disaster, it's bad. If a Waffle House is closed because there's a disaster, it's bad.

With 1,500 locations, mainly across the South and along the Gulf Coast, that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, it's a big deal when Waffle House closes its doors. However, The Post would like you to know that waiting to leave until Waffle House closes is not the recommended practice for storm planning.

That's right: One of the South's most popular breakfast chains plays an important role in hurricane forecasting. Waffle Condo intelligent areas are known for staying originate for the length of natural mess ups, and federal officials explain them to resolve the severity of a typhoon, twister or other hazards on a local space.The Federal Emergency Management Agency coined the term "Waffle Condo Index" to measure the lift out of a natural catastrophe on an space.

Waffle House test doesn't just tell us how quickly a business might rebound - it also tells us how the larger community is faring. We name it red.

"You usually see a decline ahead and a little bit of a pick up after", she said. If they're open but have a limited menu, that's yellow. "They are originate a variety of the time". They're not going to let a little Biblically strong wind stop them from slinging hash browns. The sooner restaurants, grocery stores, and banks re-open - the sooner the local economy and recovery restart.

The idea of closing a restaurant, though, is foreign to Waffle House employees.

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